Port City Daily Developers are seeking to transform a large tract of land into a new community that could add nearly 12,500 homes to the county’s growing landscape. A massive new housing project is in the works for Brunswick County, with developer Strategic Real Estate Partners LLC planning to develop...

Pat Kimbrough/The High Point Enterprise The city of High Point is trying a different approach to create its proposed Southwest Mill District. Instead of rezoning a 171-acre old industrial area along W. Green Drive between downtown and Ward Avenue, the plan is now to leave the existing zoning in place...

John Staton/Wilmington StarNews Over the decades, Wilmington’s film and television industry has been likened to a roller coaster, with years when the number of productions soars, sometimes followed by a steep decline. Right now, however, the industry in Wilmington is largely at a standstill. In addition to a handful of...

Lilly Knoepp/Blue Ridge Public Radio Five Tribal Council newcomers won in Thursday’s election on the Qualla Boundary, which saw lower-than-normal turnout. Eastern Band of Cherokee (EBCI) voters headed to the polls to cast ballots for all 12 seats of Tribal Council. The results, not yet certified, show that the council...

Brighton McConnell/WCHL Chapelboro After returning test results from THC-A products purchased at two businesses in Chatham County, the sheriff’s office announced charges against the operators and warned the community of their marketing toward minors. A release from the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office on Monday detailed a recent investigation that led...

Claire Harutunian/The Daily Tar Heel In the second admissions cycle following the elimination of race-conscious affirmative action, UNC reported an increase in Hispanic students, while the percentage of newly enrolled Black students has stayed the same since its significant decline last year. This shows demographic trends in the class of...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog State inspectors have returned to Mission Hospital for the second time in four months following complaints from nurses and a coalition of doctors, patient advocates and elected officials about recent deaths they say could have been prevented with better staffing and better telemonitoring procedures. “NCDHHS-DHSR staff...

Kelly Tyko & Ben Berkowitz/Axios President Trump spent his 2024 campaign promising Americans he’d lower grocery prices. Virtually all major grocery categories are now more expensive than they were a year ago, some substantially so. Why it matters: Trump’s economic polling numbers are about the worst they’ve ever been, and...

Jack Hagel/WRAL News Officials in Four Oaks are poised to annex an assemblage of farmland east of the town center — a move that could pave the way for more development and jobs in Johnston County. Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, which has been growing in the county, has been scouting...

Trista Talton & Jennifer Allen/Coastal Review Online The Environmental Management Commission voted unanimously Thursday to send a rule outlining health-based standards for three per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to the state Rules Review Commission. The 15-member commission also wrapped up the rulemaking process to “clarify” the definition of wetlands, as directed...

Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press North Carolina House Rep. Renée Price, D-Orange, used to go home feeling alone after a day in the Republican-run legislature. As a Democrat in a purple state, she sometimes felt like her comparably progressive ideas stranded her on an island by herself, even among members of...

Andrew R. Jones/Asheville Watchdog A quadriplegic patient who remained at Mission Hospital for nearly four years despite the hospital suing him and his parents for his refusal to leave, is receiving care at a Virginia nursing and rehabilitation facility. Eric Penland was transported from Mission in late May following a...

Jennifer Fernandez/NC Health News Jamestown resident Ashley Robinson’s third child arrived three months early. A micro-preemie, Milo weighed just 1 pound, 2.7 ounces, smaller than an average woman’s shoe. At 3 weeks old, he had his first surgery. Since then, he’s had at least seven others, including for repairs to...

Kristen Blair/Education NC Lindsay Phillips, a kindergarten teacher at Mountain Island Charter School (MICS) in Mount Holly, is the 2025 N.C. Charter School Teacher of the Year. A veteran teacher, she has 20 years of experience in the classroom, having worked for 10 years in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System and...

Salisbury Post According to a release from her campaign, Alysa Kassay announced she will be running for the U.S. House representing North Carolina’s 6th District earlier this week, pledging a “results-driven, people-first approach focused on the middle class and local communities” across the Piedmont Triad and throughout the congressional district....